Over the weekend, I watched a 'Last Comic Standing' marathon on Comedy Central. It was another of those so-called reality shows. It was a mix of Survivor and Real World featuring a group of stand-up comedians. They do tasks to gain immunity, then there is a showdown between someone deemed least funny against one of his accusers. They have like 5 minutes to do a stand-up set at a club and the audience votes someone out. Some Asian guy from San Diego won. An Asian guy also won this other singing and dancing show called 'Fame'. When the Vegas odds go up for the next American Idol, bet on the Asian.

We also rented Jerry Seinfeld's movie, the Comedian. It was okay. I didn't think comedy was such serious work. I still think Seinfeld was the best sitcom of all time. Just a shade better than Men Behaving Badly.

Watching all this stand-up has made me think I could do a better job than some of those unfunny losers. It took Seinfeld about 6 months to put together a 1 hour set. I'm going to attempt to put together a 5 minute stand-up bit in 2 weeks. Doing stand-up not that hard. Step one: push the chair away from the table. Step 2: lift your butt off the chair until your legs are fully extended.

Thank you, I'll be here all week.